But true, even though the basic outline sounds hacky and stale, promisingly, author Jay Basu is handling the script; his work thus far includes the critically acclaimed novel The Stars Can Wait, the similarly thoughtful film Song Of Songs, and an upcoming adaptation of the British crime novel Bad Traffic—none of which suggest this Merlin-related project will be necessarily cheap or predictable. The question is whether by the time it arrives we’ll be as sick of dudes pointing wands at things as we are of the sexy undead.